9-11.6 Enforcement.
The Commissioner of the Inspectional Services Department shall notify the landlord of an elderly/handicapped multi-family housing development in the event the development is found to be in noncompliance with the provisions of this Section and shall order compliance. Said landlord shall have 30 days from the date of notification in which to achieve compliance with the Commissioner’s order. Upon the expiration of the 30-day period, the landlord of a housing development still in violation of the order shall be subject to a fine of $150. Each day’s failure to comply with the order thereafter shall constitute a separate violation of the Commissioner’s order. Orders shall be enforced in a manner similar to that provided for enforcement of orders under Chapter I of the commonwealth’s Sanitary Code, being 105 CMR 410. Tenants and/or tenant organizations of elderly/handicapped multi-family housing developments shall have the right to request investigation by the Commissioner of the Inspectional Services Department if they believe that their landlords have failed to comply with the provisions of Subsection 9-11.1 through Subsection 9-11.5 and shall have the right to request a hearing from the Commissioner in a manner similar to that provided in M.G.L. Chapter 111, Section 127B if the Commissioner fails to respond to a request for investigation, if the Commissioner fails to make findings of non-compliance following an investigation, or if the Commissioner fails to issue orders upon a finding of non-compliance.
(CBC 1985 9-11.6; Ord. 1989 c. 4 § 1 [505])